The regions great masses. urban and rural. bestirred themselves and began to make demands--political. economic. and socialthat they had not made earlier and that the established order simply could not meet. The intellectuals. the professionals. the students. toyed with alternative modes of political and social organization. Nationalism. often strident and xenophobic. came increasingly to serve the purposes of Latin American demagogs. Democratic regimes were sorely tried. the more fragile of them collapsed into dictatorships. The possibility of mass violence became ever more real: It is symbolic that the decade began in the year of the devastating BogotA riots and ended in the year that Vice President Nixon was attacked in Lima and Caracas.
Identified stereotypes
Nationalism is used by Latin American demagogues.